Your first ever "X" certificate cinema film?

Philly_Q

I don't want to spoil the other thread @axisus started (Your first ever cinema film?), but it got me thinking...

What was the first X certificate film you saw at the cinema (or 18 if you're a youngling)?

Mine was John Carpenter's The Thing, in 1982.  It must have been one of the last films to get an X certificate, because the new rating system came in later that year.  And I was actually 18, I never dared to try to get into a film underage.

Still one of my all-time favourite films.

Grunfeld

Woodstock

breakstuff

RoboCop,I think.I was on a date and too young to go to the pub but managed to get in the cinema.Strangely enough that relationship didn't go anywhere.

stratman3142

The Exorcist. Yes I really am that old.

EricTheWeary

Kentucky Fried Movie. Double bill with something else I can't remember. It was truly dire. There's a ( NSFW)song in it I can still remember the chorus of oddly enough so that made an impression. 

rlw

The Graduate, or maybe Valley of the Dolls.

LoFi

I can only think of "Blade" as an 18 rating that I saw at the cinema. 18-rated films were already on the wane by the time I hit 18 (in 1998), both as a result of increasing tolerance of violence in films and also film makers deliberately trying to avoid 18 certs due to smaller audiences.

Bygone_Tones

I don't like where these thread titles are heading.

HAL9000

Probably one of the Clint Eastwood westerns. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was certainly an X certificate when it was first released. I think Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were also18s but wouldn't swear to it. I suspect if they were released today they'd all be 12s or 12As.

Hootsmon

I went on a blind date tae see a pic called the reptile and tried with all my might tae be cool during the film

There is a mega scare in the movie and I leapt 6 feet in the air showering the new date with popcorn....I can still hear my screams today

holnrew

Sin City I think. I was over 18 haha

MtB

Flesh Gordon
Some time around 1979 or 1980
Still on of my all time favourite films ;-0

Deadman

Probably some Hammer production.

boogieman

Deadman said:

Probably some Hammer production.

Me too, The Devil Rides Out I think. They're showing a lot of the x rated horror stuff that I used to see in the cinema on the Horror Channel in the afternoons now. 

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

Kentucky Fried Movie. Double bill with something else I can't remember. It was truly dire. There's a ( NSFW)song in it I can still remember the chorus of oddly enough so that made an impression. 

Deadman

.....and how much did we used to crap our pants? I'd just laugh at it now (honest)  

fretmeister

Aliens I think.

I was 13 I think.

EricTheWeary

I remember my first AA rated film (yep, that was a thing). I'm now trying to work out if it was an earlier cinema going experience than the one I posted in the other Discussion, certainly a similar time. My father took me to see Rollerball (not the god awful remake) and I was definitely under 14 (the release date suggests I was about 12)but they allowed me in with him. Great film. 

guitars4you

can't remember - but recall going with a few mates to see some crap movie with Mary Millington in it when I was 15/16 and pretending to be 18

jonnyburgo

Escape from Alcatraz although that may have been AA which is now 15 I think. I was a child, I don't think they really gave a shit back then, they let us see all sorts of stuff. Could be why the cinema is now a carpark.

boogieman

Wasn't AA "adult advisory"? More akin to a 12 I think.